Quotes about Technology

The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make a choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Thanks to technological progress, Big Brother can now be almost as omnipresent as God.

Community, Identity, Stability." Grand words. "If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved.

But industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.

Are you sure?" asked the Savage. "Are you quite sure that the Edmund in that pneumatic chair hasn't been just as heavily punished as the Edmund who's wounded and bleeding to death?

A human being in a highly technicized productive unit is simply not allowed to be spontaneous. It just interferes with the plan laid down in advance by the engineers and technicians who decide how he should word, and in this way he, the human being, is profoundly diminished, because he is not permitted to be spontaneous.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.